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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
There’s something about the sixth inning in the last week for Nelson Cruz. He’s hit game-tying home runs in the frame in three games in a week for the Texas Rangers. The latest one came on Saturday night when Cruz, Adrian Beltre and Lance ...
The natural inclination is to ask Matt Murton what’s changed. To find out how, exactly, he went from the lows of an often tumultuous 2012 campaign, to hitting just about everything in sight early this year. There were few hitters more consistent than Murton ...
Tadashi Settsu pitched two-run ball over seven innings, Yuya Hasegawa hit a two-run homer to key a six-run sixth, and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks snapped a five-game losing skid with a 10-3 come-from-behind rout of the Seibu Lions on Saturday. Toru Hosokawa’s RBI single ...
Shelby Miller gave up a single to start the game then nothing else. Not a walk or a hit batter. No one even reached on an error. The St. Louis Cardinals rookie was perfect after that leadoff single by Eric Young Jr., retiring 27 ...
Chicago Cubs right-handed reliever Kyuji Fujikawa was activated from the 15-day disabled list before Friday night’s game against the Washington Nationals. Fujikawa was on the DL since April 13 because of a strained right forearm. “I let the team down. . . . I ...
Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games on Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning. Culbreth and the rest of his crew — ...
To say the Hanshin Tigers have been successful against the Yomiuri Giants is a somewhat of a misnomer. It’s probably more accurate to say the Tigers have owned the Giants in the early part of the season. Refer to the 2004 ALCS when Boston ...
Kazuya Fujita’s three-run double off Chiba Lotte closer Naoya Masuda on Friday lifted the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles to a 5-3 come-from-behind victory over the Marines in a battle between the Pacific League’s two hottest teams. Protecting a one-run lead in the ninth, Masuda ...
The Detroit Tigers hit the ball hard for two days against the Washington Nationals with not much to show for it. Thursday’s final out was no different as Prince Fielder flied to the warning track in center with the tying run on base to ...
Takashi Ogino had the chance to be the hero with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 11th inning. It would’ve been fitting too, with the Chiba Lotte Marines star playing in his second game of the season, after missing ...
Andres Torres lined a game-ending single to right field with two outs in the 10th inning, lifting the San Francisco Giants to a 4-3 victory against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday to avoid a sweep. Javier Lopez (1-0) pitched the 10th for the win ...
Hiroki Kuroda’s payoff pitch wasn’t quite where he wanted it. The location suited Carlos Gonzalez just fine. Jorge De La Rosa pitched six scoreless innings in a steady rain to outduel Kuroda and Gonzales connected for his seventh homer in the Colorado Rockies’ 2-0 ...